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17 December 2025
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (UK)
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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
There are some people who are not academically-oriented but have amazing practical skills. I don't know enough about you to make a comment on whether you should pursue law or not, but if academia does not come naturally to you, then you might find the commercial legal environment quite stifling...
Has anyone paralegalled for Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett? Bit worried about the work-life balance news stories I read online, just wondering if it is as bad as it seems?
Does anyone have any SJT advice? It appears to be the only thing getting in the way. I know the trick is not to answer honestly because that's what I did and failed spectacularly - it appears having real world experience in this assessment disadvantages you 😂😭
Really thought this was going to...
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